Today, I was listening to some older songs here on our blog. Maybe you want to do this too, is really great to have so many different styles of music on every page…. Just enter https://xworldmusic.wordpress.com/page/mmm/ , and replace the mmm through a page number (from 2-275)
Malima Kone was born 1984 in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, a country with 68 different languages and a music-based culture. In the 90s, he came to the US. Here’s his song “Dambe“, a song of a mother in tears who is worried about a better tomorrow for the children:
Smockey, born in 1971, is a burkinabé hip-hop musician who won the Kora Award for the best hip-hop artist in 2010. Here’s his nice song “50 ans 2 dépendance”:
Another great song, from one of my favourite bands, Yeleen. I’ve already presented you Deux Camps and Chemin de l’exil. Here’s their song “Tibet“, I know, it’s a difficil theme, but their style is nice:
Today I present you the song “Thomas Sankara – Hommage”, from Samsk Le Jah. You don’t know Sankara, “Africa’s Che Guevara“, a very interesting person who was killed 24 years ago? Sankara (December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987) was the 5th president of Burkina Faso. He was a Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, but he had also many really great ideas: his government included large number of women, his policy was oriented toward fighting corruption, reforestation(the green wall of Africa, against the desert), averting famine, and making education and health real priorities.His government was also the first in Africa to claim that AIDS was a major threat. He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers! As President, he lowered his salary to only $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer. He aslo wrote the national anthem him self. One week before he was killed, he said: “while revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas!“. As a result, he was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d’état led by the French-backed Blaise Compaoré on October 15, 1987. I most like his idea of the green wall, in my opinion one of the best solutions to stop the desert!
R.I.P. Thomas Sankara
sources: wikipedia(I just wanted you to get to know him) and others
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